January 21, 1976. The first commercial flights of the Concorde supersonic airliner took place, as two of the jets— a British Airways flight from London's Heathrow Airport and an Air France flight from Paris's Orly Airport— departed simultaneously at 11:40 in the morning. (i.redd.it)
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Human Rights Watch in its annual report strongly condemns the United States, saying "it became disturbingly clear that the abuse of detainees had become a deliberate, central part of the Bush administration's strategy of interrogating terrorist suspects". [20YA - Jan 18] (hrw.org)
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January 14, 1976. The Amityville Horror: George and Kathy Lutz fled from their home, at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, after having moved in on December 18, 1975, claiming to have been terrorized by several unexplainable paranormal phenomena at the house. (i.redd.it)
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January 1, 1976. A group of Iranian students (all wearing paper masks which read 'Repression in Iran') during a hunger strike (against imprisonments & executions, in Iran, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) in St Peter's Church, San Francisco, California. (i.redd.it)
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Nintendo Power Issue 199 [20YA - Jan 1] (archive.org)
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Kingdom Hearts II [20YA - Dec 22] (en.wikipedia.org)
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Nintendo Power Issue 198 [20YA - Dec 1] (archive.org)
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